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(A) Every ordinance or resolution passed or adopted by the City Council upon its final passage shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose, and shall be authenticated by the signature of the presiding officer and Clerk of the Council.
(B) Every ordinance and resolution of a general or permanent nature so passed or adopted by the Council shall be published in a manner prescribed by Council.
(C) Publication of legal notices, advertisements, proclamations, ordinances, and resolutions required to be published by any Municipal body, board, commission, or officer, may be made in the manner provided above for the publication of ordinances and resolutions passed and adopted by the City Council, or as otherwise prescribed by council ordinance, and no other publication of the same shall be required. (Amended 11-5-46; 5-7-13)
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the Council by petition signed by electors equal in number to ten (10) percent of the total vote cast in the last preceding regular Municipal election of the City. All petition papers, circulated with respect to any proposed ordinance, shall be uniform in character and shall contain the proposed ordinance in full, and have printed thereon the names and addresses of at least five (5) electors who shall be officially regarded as filing the petition and constitute a committee of the petitioners for the purposes hereinafter named. (Amended 11-6-62)
The circulator of any petition paper shall be an elector of the City. Each signer of a petition shall sign and date their name in ink and write their place of residence by street and number, or by other description sufficient to identify the place. The signatures to any such petition paper need not all be appended to one paper but to each such paper there shall be attached an affidavit by the circulator thereof stating the number of signers to such part of the petition, that the circulator is an elector of the City, that the signatures on the petition paper were affixed in the presence of the circulator and that the circulator believes each signature appended to the paper is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. (Amended 11-5-63; 5-7-13)
All papers comprising a petition shall be assembled and filed with the Clerk of the Council as one instrument. Within ten (10) days from the filing of a petition the Clerk shall ascertain whether it is signed by the required number of qualified electors in the manner and form prescribed and that it conforms to all requirements of the Charter. Upon the completion of his examination the Clerk shall endorse upon the petition a certificate of the result thereof. (Amended 11-5-63)
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